VA COMPETES Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 10142.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HARDER of California, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 169, November 15, 2024, Page H6027):
  U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Sec. 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To improve the workforce of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 15, 2024 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  166 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 10142, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/10142

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 16, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  8021aa567f1b4e74e8d734be28b368041be884f203428b042b17f2d7426ac38e

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of December 16, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 10142, last updated December 16, 2024. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.